[I'm so sleepy, go to sleep.] There will be an update tomorrow at noon. 】

Descending a staircase, the group exited the platform.

Outside the platform, it is not a waiting hall with a simple bamboo roof as Li Ying knows, but a garden.

A corridor runs through the center, flanked by rockeries, flowerbeds, and a windmill, slowly turning. From the layout of the garden, it is completely ninth-rate, but this is just an accessory of an aisle, and in Zhang Hui's opinion, it is already so extravagant that it will not appear in a dream.

Walking in the shady corridor, facing a gust of wind, Li Ying closed his eyes and enjoyed himself, "Jingshi is so cool." ”

"Cool?" Zhang Hui narrowed his eyes and glanced at several Taihu Lake stones whose reflections were so strong that people couldn't open their eyes, "Today's temperature is at least thirty-three or four." ”

Li Ying shook the folding fan, "The humidity in the south of the Yangtze River is high, thirty-one and twelve degrees, and it can heat people to death." ”

The concept of temperature has been around for several years, and the concept of humidity has been in Nature for a long time, but it is still recent to associate temperature and humidity with the human body's perception of heat and cold.

Zhang Hui still remembers the paper, "Han Xianggong's "Temperature and Humidity"? ”

"The Measurement and Significance of Temperature and Humidity in the March issue of this year." Li Ying corrected the way.

The difference between the papers on "Nature" and the vernacular and literary language in the world is becoming more and more obvious, but the members of the society who subscribe to "Nature" all year round have become accustomed to this and have become daily, "The temperature in the summer between the Central Plains and Jiangzuo will not be too different, the humidity is different, and the feeling is different." ”

"Last year, my younger brother built his own weather box at home, using the thermometer and hygrometer of the society, which have been recorded in the past two years and have a lot of experience. Especially when compared with the number jù of other colleagues, it is more interesting. ”

"The younger brother also has a weather box at home, but there is one more barometer than Zhang Jiu, which is self-made, and it can't be put into the weather box......"

"I've heard of it." Zhang Hui said with a smile, "Li Jiu, your barometer is famous, and a three-zhang high barometer is erected at the door of your house, and you can tell it at a glance when it is windy and rainy." ”

Li Ying said seriously, "The standard barometer uses mercury, and the glass tube is more than two feet five inches and one minute." But if you change it to water, it will be three and a half feet. ”

"Speaking of air pressure, two months ago, members from Yanzhou, including the younger brother, measured the altitude of Mount Tai and used a barometer."

"Barometer alone?"

"It's mostly triangulation." Zhang replied, "With a barometer, the main reason is to confirm the correctness and error of the barometric pressure altitude formula. ”

"How tall?" Li Ying asked only to realize that he had made a mistake, and hurriedly changed his words and asked, "Is the paper out?" ”

"It's out, it should be published in the next two months." Zhang Hui sighed and said, "For the altitude of this Mount Tai, I have remeasured it three times. Each time, I changed the direction in a different direction, and finally confirmed. ”

Before Mount Tai, Huashan, Wutai and Songshan all measured their altitude, and as a result, they fell through everyone's glasses.

With those three mountains in front, the truth of the height of Mount Tai will not cause too many fluctuations. As long as you are a member of the society, you are prepared.

"Not as high as the ancients said?" Li Ying asked.

"That's for sure. But how tall it is, you will never think of Brother Li Jiu. ”

"It should be a little higher than Songshan, right?"

"Almost, just a little bit higher. Taking the Taiping Peak [Jade Emperor Peak] Dengfeng Platform as the measurement point, the average value of the three measurements is 510 zhang and 3 feet 7 inches. It is less than 500 zhang of Songshan Mountain, which is a little higher. Far inferior to Huashan, Wutai. ”

That's already very low. The highest point of Wutai Mountain in Hedong is 1,000 zhang, and the elevation of the highest point of Huashan is also more than 700 zhang. In the paper, the south of the Qingtang Dynasty, which is used as evidence of the relationship between altitude and air pressure, is the source of the Yellow River, even if it is flat land, it is more than 1,000 zhang.

Since ancient times, it is said that the water comes out of the plateau, who would have thought that the height of the plateau, Mount Tai is not half of it.

"But the altitude is absolute." Li Ying said, "Relative height, Mount Tai is definitely not low. ”

"It is true that the altitude of Fengfu County and Jicheng is not high, this time it is through Guò Jishui to measure the altitude of Jicheng......"

The two qi scholars who were caught up in the discussion walked through the wide and empty waiting hall without squinting.

The place to wait for the bus to rest is a building of the same scale as the main hall of the temple, and it is divided into more than a dozen halls of different sizes, each of which is almost the top furnishings in the world.

A one-person high dressing mirror can be sold for thousands of gold in the world, and every hall here has a side. The table clock decorated with gold and jade can also be seen by the outside world, but its internal parts can be hand-made by the master of the general and the ordnance supervisor, and even the bell can be struck at the ointment—a function rarely seen outside. These two utensils are among the most inconspicuous furnishings in the halls.

Ordinary people can come in once, they can't help but tremble, or dumbfounded, at least they will praise and praise, just like Li Ying's three companions, who have long been fascinated and can't distinguish things, but Zhang Hui and Li Ying didn't pay attention to the decorations at all, and the spirit of the two of them was all focused on discussion.

The assistant who led the way seemed to be surprised, and walked all the way through the hall to the door of the hall.

The porch peeking out far out of the hall obscured the sunlight overhead, and four or five carriages lined up under the porch at the entrance of the hall.

Whether it is the scorching sun or the torrential rain, the politicians do not have to worry about getting their heads sunburned and wet feet, and they get on the bus directly under the cover of the eaves.

Zhang Hui and Li Ying reluctantly ended the discussion, and the coachmen who gathered together to chat, seeing the comers, also quickly ended their chat.

In front of the carriage driver at the gate, carrying a gourd, he came lazily, "Just these few?" ”

"Good students are entertained!"

The assistant admonished, turned his head and said goodbye to Li Ying and Zhanghui, "These cars are all transferred from Kaifeng Mansion, and the drivers are also veterans, and please rest assured that safety can be guaranteed." The villain still has to guard the platform, so he can't send the two officials away. ”

Li Ying and Zhang thanked each other and sent the assistant away, looking back, Li Ying was a little anxious and asked the coachman, "When will the car depart?" ”

The driver sat down on the pedals of the car, "Officials don't need to hurry, wait until the time is right to leave." ”

It's all the same style, and I can't see much difference between the old and the new, and even the coachman's clothes are all the same style and one color, Li Ying asked, "You are also a public carriage?" ”

The coachman bowed, "The villain used to drive a stagecoach, but now he drives a public carriage." However, the villain's carriage can only be done by nobles, and Han Xianggong told him this time...... Now it's two. ”

There is a public carriage, that is, it runs according to the route every day, and the important places in Beijing can be reached by public carriages. Hundreds of carriages are managed by the Kaifeng Public Transport Headquarters, and the Kaifeng Public Transport Headquarters is under the management of the Kaifeng Prefecture. If Han Gang wants to transfer the carriage, it really only needs one sentence.

Xiang Zhanghui, who came to Beijing for the first time, introduced the public carriage of the Beijing Division, "I have to wait for another five minutes." There shouldn't be anyone. ”

"A few days ago, I said that there would still be people who no one, all of them came to Beijing to participate in the society, and they all went from this side, and the villain earned dozens of times just by catching the car."

Showing off his income, he saw envy in the eyes of the two companions as he wished, and the coachman said, "But there shouldn't be anyone today......

But as soon as he finished speaking, another man came out of the hall, and looked back. He was followed by two men, one fifteen or sixteen years old, with a huge package on his back, while the other, already sixty or seventy, with a cane in his hand, staggered, did not look in good health, and his eyes seemed to be worse.

"Father-in-law, this is it."

The little companion took the old man by his arm and came to the car.

Zhang Hui's heart beat violently, and he saluted the old man, "But Mr. Shanyang Wei Gongshiwei?" ”

Hearing this, Lao Suo turned around, and aimed at Zhang Hui at the front, but only the whites of his eyes were dull in his open eyes, "It's Wei Pu." ”

Wei Pu, but when Shen Kuo revised the almanac, he was the most valued assistant, and he was famous for his calculation of solar and lunar eclipses.

Hearing that it was this old-timer, Zhang Hui and Li Ying were not stable, and they hurriedly helped Wei Pu into the car, while he sat opposite. The servants were all standing at the back of the carriage, firmly grasping the handles.

After the three groups of people were seated, the coachman shouted: "It's two o'clock, a few officials, let's go." ”

With a whip, the carriage drove out of the building, turned two corners, and went out of a heavy door, and the street was in front of it, and the coachman, as if he had opened the chatterbox, went out with interesting anecdotes about the Beijing Division, and by the way, he also introduced the inside and outside of the Beijing Division.

"The old city is the capital built when Emperor Zhu was there for the fifth generation, and it was to repair the old Bianzhou."

"Xincheng is the founding of Emperor Taizu. It's a full fifty miles long."

"In this city, the Queen Mother listened to Han Xianggong's construction, and there were 21 large and small artillery forts, and 17 have been built. Each one is like a hedgehog, filled with hundreds of cannons, and as soon as the thief army arrives, these cannons will go down in a round, and no one will be inhabited for more than ten miles. ”

The coachman's mouth was foaming, and Zhang Hui, who was greedily looking at the scenery on the road, finally came back and smiled at Li Ying: "It is said that at the foot of the Imperial City of Beijing, everyone is a good eloquent, and a mouth can say that the eagle falls to the ground, and the old cow goes to the sky, and when I see it today, this statement is really true." ”

The coachman didn't hear this, but still sold enough strength and shouted on the street, "This road is not considered to be entering Beijing, just walking outside the new city." There are two counties of Kaifeng and Xiangfu under Tokyo, Kaifeng in the east and Xiangfu in the west, which was originally the city under Kaifeng Mansion, and the outside of the city is under the management of two counties, and now the city of Kuocheng has wrapped the jurisdiction of the two counties in, so Xiangfu County and Kaifeng County are all counties in the city. But there are countless fields in these two counties that have not been renovated, and they are all cultivated in the city. ”

Li Ying asked when he heard this. "Kaifeng is so prosperous, there are all kinds of businesses, and you can't make a lot of money from farming, how can you tolerate it?"

"Those who farm here are masters who are not short of money." The coachman raised his head and said proudly, "Don't look at the soil for food, an acre of land can't get three or five thousand yuan a year, but as long as the landlord says to sell, the price of the land can soar to the sky." ”

Zhang Hui finally got some interest, "Heaven, how high can it be?" ”

"At least the current Bailaiguan is not high, and no one sells it."

"Are you all crazy?" Zhang Hui's eyes widened, "How can anyone still buy it when it's so expensive?" ”

Even if it is the high-quality fertile land in the Jiangnan resort, even if it is planted in two crops of rice and wheat in rotation a year, the annual output will be seven or eight stones, and the yield will not exceed eight guan, and the landlords, tenant farmers and the government will not have much left in each family - now the price of rice in Jiangnan is one stone, and in the past ten years, it has only risen by one or two percent.

The coachman smiled, "If you stand a little higher in the city of Tokyo, you can see the walls of the Imperial City. Not to mention anything else, one acre of land is converted into a warehouse, rented out, less than twenty or thirty times a year, can farming be compared? If you build a workshop, a mill, a blacksmith, you will earn more, but you need craftsmanship. The most important thing is to build a house and rent it out, which is much better than farming. ”

He looked up at the front, the speed of the carriage slowed down slightly, "Three officials, it's almost there!" ”

……………………

"My lord, my son is back."

The two sons who had just been released from prison knelt in front of them, and Wen Yanbo couldn't help but be emotional, and said in a trembling voice,

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back."

Three sons were arrested, one was taken from home, one in front of Wen Yanbo, and the other was taken from the train. His Chinese and Fu were released early, but the other two suffered a lot, which is not something that the well-bred Yanai can bear.

Wen Yanbo urged, "Hurry up and take a shower to get rid of bad luck, and when you're done, come out and eat something good." ”

The two sons left first, but Wen Jifu was still there, and he whispered to Wen Yanbo, "My lord, don't be angry with Guan Yuanzi anymore." People are arrogant, why bother hitting stones with eggs at this time,"

Wen Yanbo's face hung up, "Why don't you take revenge?" ”

Wen Jifu whispered, "I heard that Han Gang is holding a general meeting of the Natural Society, and the members of the Natural Society come from all over the world, so they may want to control the local council and the big council through these people. ”

Wen Yanbo's disdain almost flowed out: "The rabble, the servants, are just some rural talents, what can they do?" ”